Creative Arts Camp 2024 (Teaching Painted Paper Collage Day 2)
I overhead someone asking one of my students about my class, and the answer was “fun and exciting!” I can live with that.
Polly Castor
Creative Arts Camp 2024 (Teaching Painted Paper Collage Day 1)
Leaving a deluge behind (flooding with roads washed out) I headed to Creative Arts Camp to teach Painted Paper Collage with 35 categories of art supplies that took days to collect from all the places I use them. After a warm welcome with dear friends who greeted me, unloaded me, and help me assemble my … Read more
To Be Like a Tree (Poem by Carrie Newcomer)
See how the trees
Reach up and outward
As if their entire existence
Were an elegant gesture of prayer.
What is a Friend? (Quote by C. Raymond Beran)
A friend? What is a friend? Just one, I repeat, with whom you dare to be yourself.”
A Dark Thing Inside the Day ( Poem by Linda Gregg)
Everything desirable is here already in abundance.
To Not Love is More of a Risk
Loving is the whole point of life, and to not love is the greatest risk of all.
Steam-fried Cabbage with Poached Salmon (Recipe)
Want a delicious, one-pan, stove-top dinner, which is quick and easy to make? This good dinner is on the table in under ten minutes.
Duet (Book Review)
A goldfinch and a boy learn Chopin, and discover a lot more in the process. A wonderful middle grade read.
So Much Happiness (poem by Naomi Shihab Nye)
Since there is no place large enough to contain so much happiness, you shrug, you raise your hands, and it flows out of you…
Mushroom, Mustard, and Gruyere Omelet (Recipe)
This is savory and interesting, a very grown up way to serve eggs.
Recent Pages in my Bible Lesson Journal
This is making a difference in me being able to make these lessons practical and transformative.
Stillness is Un-Conflicted (Quote by Erich Schiffmann)
Stillness is not the absence or negation of energy, life, or movement. Stillness is dynamic.